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Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2025: KATE MORA
PRESIDENT, MID-ATLANTIC DIVISION, KROGER, GLEN ALLEN
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2025: KATE MORA
PRESIDENT, MID-ATLANTIC DIVISION, KROGER, GLEN ALLEN
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Kroger tapped Mora to lead its mid-Atlantic division in 2024. She joined Kroger in 2022 as vice president on special assignment supporting End-to-End Fresh, an initiative designed to get the freshest food to shoppers, and became vice president for merchandising in its Michigan division.
Before joining Kroger, Mora worked for more than 26 years at Walmart, leaving in 2021 as a vice president. Mora holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.
Kroger’s mid-Atlantic division operates more than 100 stores in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio, staffed by about 18,000 associates. It has 68 stores in Virginia, but two stores in Charlottesville and Abingdon are closing in August and September, part of a larger plan to shutter 60 stores nationally. In 2024, unionized Kroger employees in the Richmond and Hampton Roads regions ratified a new three-year contract.
In 2022, Kroger and Albertsons Cos. announced plans for a $24.6 billion merger agreement, but it was blocked in court late last year. Now the two grocers are locked in dueling lawsuits in Delaware Chancery Court.
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